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Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 23:19
Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux...

FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 21:39
The FreeBSD project issued today their Q3'2024 progress report to outline enhancements made to this open-source BSD operating system over the prior quarter...

Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:56
While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code. The most recent fascinating aspect is the old AMD GFX6/GFX7 era GPUs seeing official Vulkan 1.3 support that has been deemed conformant by Khronos...

Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:42
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024...

Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support On Wayland

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:33
Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland...

OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:19
Near the end of October OpenCL 3.0.17 was released as the newest maintenance update to this low-level compute API for cross-vendor GPUs and other accelerators. The OpenCL Headers and SDK have now been updated for the new revision...

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